Serious C road crash in Manchester M14 on 23 August 2015 at 15:25 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a car were involved in a crash on a C road in Manchester at 15:25 on Sunday 23 August 2015. There were four casualties: two people were seriously injured and two were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 23 Aug 2015
- Sunday, 15:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and car
- Casualties
- 4
- 2 seriously injured, 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.4473, longitude -2.2365, in the M14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Manchester. It is one of the crashes that make up the Fallowfield, Manchester, M14 7BH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Manchester
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201506E005202
- Council area
- Manchester
- Police force
- Greater Manchester
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 20 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 8 December 1997.
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on a C road in Manchester, 8 December 1997
At the same spotRef 199706C224097
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Manchester, 7 March 2004
At the same spotRef 200406C055548
Slight
Honda Civic crash on a C road in Manchester, 11 January 2004
At the same spotRef 200406C024973
Slight
Mazda 626 crash on a C road in Manchester, 10 February 2008
At the same spotRef 200806B089092
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on a C road in Manchester, 23 February 2007
At the same spotRef 200706B067559
Serious
Yamaha Ybr 125 crash on a C road in Manchester, 21 November 2010
At the same spotRef 201006B039237
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,399 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
Casualties (4)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
Casualty 2: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 4: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Data source
This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 201506E005202 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Manchester road accident statistics for 2015.